Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 1118 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
OPENING OF CASTLEFORD MATERNITY HOME BY PRINCESS MARY, VISCOUNTESS LASCELLES | 1929 | 1929-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 35mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 6 mins 19 secs |
Summary This film contains footage of Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles, to Castleford to unveil the War Memorial, open the maternity home at Normanton and District Cottage Hospital, and to open Castleford Public market. |
Description
This film contains footage of Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles, to Castleford to unveil the War Memorial, open the maternity home at Normanton and District Cottage Hospital, and to open Castleford Public market.
Title-Visit to Castleford of Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary Viscountess Lascelles.
Title-Opening of Castleford War Memorial Maternity Home Castleford, Normanton and District hospital.
The film opens with shots of the crowds holding up a decorated banner which reads...
This film contains footage of Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles, to Castleford to unveil the War Memorial, open the maternity home at Normanton and District Cottage Hospital, and to open Castleford Public market.
Title-Visit to Castleford of Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary Viscountess Lascelles.
Title-Opening of Castleford War Memorial Maternity Home Castleford, Normanton and District hospital.
The film opens with shots of the crowds holding up a decorated banner which reads `Welcome to our Princess'.
Title-Her Royal Highness arrives at Castleford Bridge.
The Viscount and the Princess arrive by car at Castleford Bridge where a mounted police officer rides along beside their car, and the large crowds lining the street are visible.
Title-At the War Memorial Maternity Home.
Following this, they go to the War Memorial and Maternity Home where they are greeted by the local dignitaries; the Viscount cuts the ribbon and there are shots of the crowds, including a group of nurses with flags.
Title-At the Castleford and Normanton District Hospital.
They then leave for the hospital, and Princess Mary helps to plant a tree in the grounds by shovelling soil onto the roots. Speeches are given and crowds cheer for the Princess. The film ends with shots of a football team and crowds of children.
Context
In November 1947, Princess Mary declined to attend the wedding her niece, the future Queen Elizabeth II, and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, to protest the fact that the Duke of Windsor had not been invited." She suffered a fatal heart attack during a walk with her family on the grounds of the Harewood House estate, aged 67.
At the outbreak of World War II, the Princess Royal became chief controller and later controller commandant of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS, renamed...
In November 1947, Princess Mary declined to attend the wedding her niece, the future Queen Elizabeth II, and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, to protest the fact that the Duke of Windsor had not been invited." She suffered a fatal heart attack during a walk with her family on the grounds of the Harewood House estate, aged 67.
At the outbreak of World War II, the Princess Royal became chief controller and later controller commandant of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS, renamed the Women's Royal Army Corps in 1949). In that capacity she travelled Britain visiting its units, as well as wartime canteens and other welfare organisations. On the death of her younger brother, the Duke of Kent, she became the president of Papworth. The Princess Royal became air chief commandant of Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service in 1950 |